近期,科学家们在对贝努小行星的研究中发现了大量与生命相关的有机分子,这一重大发现引发了全球科学界的广泛关注。贝努小行星(Bennu)是NASA“奥西里斯-雷克斯”任务的目标星体,该任务于2016年发射,旨在探测和采集小行星样本,以便于理解太阳系的形成以及生命起源的问题。随着研究的深入,科学家们不仅采取了高精度的观测手段,还利用实验室分析技术确认了这些生命相关分子的存在,为探讨生命的起源提供了新的视 ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...
The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...